Book description
A planet-wide plot! The stakes? All the world's people.
The million cities cover every inch of the Earth's surface with a
gleaming metal skin. They penetrate deep into the planet's core. And
billions of people crowd them, fast squandering the depleted resources
of an aging world.
The way forward for the human race lies in only one direction:
outward to the stars. But only the Chartists are capable of building
starships. And the government has outlawed them and subjected them to
a vicious reign of terror.
But the Chartists are not what they seem.
J. T. McIntosh is the pseudonym used by the Scottish science
fiction writer James Murdoch Macgregor. Born in 1925 in
Renfrewshire, he published his first short story in 1950 in
Astounding Science Fiction. His first novel was published in
1953. He died in 2008.
